Khadija Horton

It was April of last year, and I was working on a beauty story about a popular lip trend called My Lips But Better, or MLBB. A type of lip blushing (i.e., tattooed, semi-permanent makeup on your mouth), MLBB gives your lips a subtle rosy tint using a cosmetic tattoo gun (on a low setting) and water-based inks. I happily volunteered to test out the trend in the name of research. After all, I'm not afraid of needles, and permanence was never a notion that scared or bothered me. With enough time (or money), anything is reversible, right? At least, that’s what I thought.